The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-30
XIII thu Fleas in and Around the
aQue, but Don't Interrupt the
Hofbed Under the Door Steps.

HOtbed Under the Door steps.
9TH PISTOL LAw.-The following
Ia tbeDistol law as passed by both
Houslof the Texas Legislature, and
whicais to take effect ninety days
/ from 6 passage: :.
"Iany person in this State shall
carr on or about his person, saddle,
ora his saddle-bags, any pistol, dirk,
dagger, slung-shot, swOrd-cane, spear,
k:uckles made of any metal or hard
sbstance, bowie-knife, or any other
hndOf knife manufactured or sold
.orpurposes of otfense and defense, he
ihan be punished by fine of not less
han twenty-five nor more than two
iundrel dollars, and shall be confined
in the county Jail not less than twen-
tyf nor more than fifty days.-E1-
Z change.
TherooGGdd that MAJ be see seeGHi fji'iissed
oSk this law will depend upon its fear
s7ss and impartial enforcement. Sucil
enforcement will do sonaethiacg toward
yhe banishment of deadly weapons
lot only from the "Lone Star" State
1t also from any other section where
is applied. Yet a law, however
I'd, if not enforced becomes "dead
r." Unfaithful officers of the
law, false witnesses, and incom-
Int juries will kill dead any law.
6ected with this law two ques-
3 may be considered.
lrsb-That class against whom the
is directed may claim the right to
prepared to "defend" themselves,
as the (civiD "powerr that be'
M the right to keep standing ar
furnished with the most approx
ieadly weapons which the inven-
g of men can place in their hands
The obligation on ! eieize! q sSass ~ 81
"the higher powers" cannot be
stronger than is the obligation on
"the higher powers" to obey the
highest powers-the authority of Him
who has all power in heaven and in
earth"-authority which binds rulers
as we'll as subjects.
iSecond-Is it consistent for the civil
powers to force men to the slaughter
of their fellows in war for cause sup
posed to be satisfactory to these rulers
themselves who afterward hang or
otherwise punish a man who for suth-
cient cause in his own Judgment takes
the life of a fellow man. In the form
ef case man is required to risk his
own life in doing what he can to kill
others that have done him no wrong,
and in the latter case he perchance for
feits his own life if he kills another
man for cause satisfactory to himself.
Not for wrath, but for conscience
sake, every man should obey 1.-THE
powers that be" so far as the require
ments of said powers do not conflict
with loyalty to Jesus, concerning
whom in the presence of Moses and
Elijah-the representatives Of the law
and the prophets-a voice out OF
the cloud on the mount of
TRANSPORTATION, said: Hear ye
Him. Let all men who would be
found of the Judge in peace" at his
coming. "See- that they refuse not
him that speaketh. For if they escap-
ed not who refused him [Moses] that
spake on earth, much more shall not
we escape, if we turn away from him
that speaketh from heaven" Heb
xxi: 25.
But this or any similar law against
killing by retail while there is high
er law-war- overrides all 9TH
er laws, civil and divine, binding men
to kill by the wholesale when ordered
80 to do, is like a householder
commanding his servants to kill all
the fleas in and around the house
but not to disturb the hog-bed and the
old sow and pigs under the door-steps.